by vIv Tue Feb 17, 2015 4:59 pm
Nick wrote:I actually thought it was a huge disappointment in that it replicates Sorrow and Extinction without breaking new ground for them. I gave it about 8 listens and gave up.
The production is what does it for me. So many guitar tracks, there's so much going on, it's just so ENORMOUS. I mean, SAE had the same guitar tones, but had a very fuzzed out, narrow production envelope. This is so much more expansive and soaring. I also think he really matured as a vocalist and took a lot of risks as far as really honing his range and his delivery as a singer, and there are also a lot more vocal harmonies. It gets bogged down a tiny bit in the middle, but those first few tracks are stunning. I just love how "World's Apart" starts out as standard Sabbath-inspired doom and then slows down to this ponderous, ever-shifting elegy, with modulation that is so imperceptible that you don't even realize that the song has completely evolved into something thunderously new. And the Floyd-esque coda after the reverb-drenched bridge in "Foundations" is so wonderfully beautiful, like Earth meets Alcest.
Maybe give it a couple more tries, on good headphones and then on a big set of speakers. It definitely took me a while to truly appreciate this one, but I can't get enough of it now.
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